"My eyes were closed, they're open now"

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Source : Song: The Connoisseur Of Great Excuse

“It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.”
“Misery is the River of the World”
“I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.”
“Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.”
“What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.”
“There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.”
“I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.”
“The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.”

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